I am a Lecturer and Imperial College Research Fellow supported by an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship at Imperial College London, currently based within Imperial's new AI Initiative, I-X. Previously, I was a Schmidt Science Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine working with Prof Francesco Checchi on mortality estimation. I also am part of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, working with Prof Azra Ghani and Dr Patrick Walker on modelling the transmission of COVID-19, and a long-term collaborator with the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL) across UNC at Chapel Hill and Brown University.
My undergraduate degree was in Natural Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge before completing a master's degree in Systems Biology, working on multi-omic computational methods for identifying new biochemical reactions indicative of disease.
For my PhD I worked on integrating genetic information into malaria transmission modelling with Prof Azra Ghani, Dr Lucy Okell and Dr Robert Verity. This work was focussed on extending malaria transmission models that have been used in creating global technical strategies for malaria control by including parasite genetic information to answer policy questions related to pfhrp2/3 deletions and antimalarial resistance.
My current research involves using mathematical models to better understand the spread of infectious diseases and estimate mortality in settings without robust vital registration services. I work primarily in three areas:
Malaria drug and diagnostic resistance modelling
Pandemic preparedness and vaccine impact modelling
Mortality estimation in humanitarian settings